three years with italians from so many different regions and walks of life. i've traveled through this peninsula searching for a definition of a country that is at once welcoming and resistant, beautiful and dark, ancient and young. yes, pieces of the country we all know as italy are to be found in the hills, fields, homes, mountains, castles, ruins and medieval streets. but my search has led me to realize that italy as a single, pure entity is to be found only at the table. the commander-in-chief and the president of the united

states, my friend donald j. trump. >> rupert murdoch is a direct line of the oval office in a way he's never enjoyed before. proximity to power. >> there probably would not have been a president trump without fox news. >> maybe we won't do it anymore with them. >> you give the viewers what they want. >> whatever his instinct is, that's what a great leader is. >> the channel became focused on telling him what he wanted to hear. >> james is watching this all in dismay. >> he is getting uncomfortable with the network under the leadership of his own father. >> but lachlan and rupert's view was why would we change this? we've never had bigger ratings. >> and cracks inside the family are starting to appear. >> it's august 2017 and rupert murdoch invites bob iger, the head of disney, to have a drink with him at his $29 million vineyard in the hills of bel air. rupert offers iger a glass of wine and they begin to talk. >> like rupert, bob iger's an

empire builder too. for years he's been building disney into an absolute behemoth by buying major brands like marvel, lucasfilm and pixar. they start out by talking about how the media industry has changed drastically in the last five years. >> huge companies like amazon, facebook, apple and netflix of course. >> both men recognize that the only way to survive in this new media environment is to just get bigger. iger, of course, is happy to chat with rupert murdoch, but he's also a little puzzled. why am i here? this media empire is rupert's life work. >> i went over to america and bought every new program from every network. of course, one enjoys the

feeling of power. we can firmly announce the starting of a fox news channel. i think in everything in life, when it's going well, push it. >> but rupert suggests something stunning, something that flies in the face of everything he's done and built over the last few decades. >> it is maybe the most surprising thing that rupert murdoch has ever done over the course of his decades long career in the media industry. >> surprising news here, potentially big story here. >> something that will forever change the face of his empire and completely upend his children's fight to succeed him.

>> around 2017, around this time, the murdoch empire is everywhere. he owns the wall street journal, new york post, he has the portfolio of uk newspapers, the sun and the times and the sunday times. he owns a big chunk of sky television, which has operations across europe. and in the united states, he has a movie studio, fox news channel, the fox broadcast network, a portfolio of cable channels. it's huge. it's a huge empire. and james and lachlan are running this thing together with their father keeping a watchful eye over the two of them. >> the public face for the company is, this is a wonderful partnership. they are getting along like they never have. they can maybe run this thing together. but behind the scenes, it's impossible.

>> they have different ideas about management and they have different ideas about politics. >> lachlan has tailored his politics to suit his father. by the time he's in his 40s, lachlan is described as right of rupert. and he is on board for the trumpification, if you like, of fox news. >> we have to give you news and information you will not get from the destroyed trump establishment media. >> rupert and lachlan are quite happy with what fox is doing. the ratings are strong. the network's popularity is growing. but james still believes that he can turn this network, that he can make it a more moderate, more responsible news organization. and in rupert's view, james is just wrong about this. this is a complete non-starter. >> you would hear people make comments about james as being the sort of squishy liberal in the family. he's not somebody that the fox family should care about because at the end of the day, it's all about rupert going forward and it's all about lachlan going

forward. >> the polarization of the trump presidency is playing out on this kind of intimate level with these two brothers. >> james is both uncomfortable personally and politically with the direction fox is going in. at the same time, he has another agenda. >> breaking news in the media. 21st century fox agreeing to buy sky. >> $14.1 billion, rupert murdoch already owns 39% of sky and has been trying to increase his stake. >> fox is back, snapping up the part of sky they didn't have the last time. >> james is renewing the family's bid for sky, and he is concerned already that the empire not give regulators in the uk any reason to reject this bid. >> is the deal actually going to happen this time around? >> this was the company that he had failed to buy in the midst of the hacking scandal. >> what has happened at this company is disgraceful and they should stop thinking about mergers when they've got to sort out the mess they've created. >> clearly the practices of certain individuals did not live

up to the standards and quality of journalism that we believe in and that i believe in. >> so the hacking scandal cost him the leadership of the company and had really tarnished his name and the murdoch name. >> in the years that passed since their first failed bid to buy sky outright, the world had changed on them. in the new world of streaming, fox was suddenly too small. >> there is a revolution that's underway in which we watch television in america. >> players like netflix, amazon, apple who orders a magnitude larger than news corp. it was no longer a matter of wanting sky, it was a matter of needing sky. >> for james, this second bid for sky is a chance for personal redemption but it's also a chance to change the dynamics of the succession fight. >> he gives an interview on stage at the royal television society conference in cambridge. the first big set piece public thing he's done in the uk for years.

i was in the audience that day and everyone in the tv industry in the uk doesn't really like the murdochs and everyone's hoping that he's going to die on his [bleep] >> can we just do a quick show of hands in the audience of who thinks that this deal should go through? would you say half? >> way more than half. >> but i think he does sort of handle it quite well. >> in the us and some sectors, they think i'm the raging liberal environmentalist tree hugger, and here i'm the right-wing demon who's going to foxify everything. and i'm glad of that because i think mystery is kind of an important part of an identity. >> so it was a success. >> thank you very much indeed. >> thank you, sarah. thanks everyone for having me. >> and good luck with the new world. >> james murdoch is feeling more than hopeful. he thinks this is a slam dunk really. but then a scandal erupts in the united states that puts everything that james is

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ad revenue in 2015 alone. >> caution. you are about to enter the no spin zone. >> bill o'reilly though as early as 2004 had a problem. he engaged in predatory sexual harassment of a number of different people. and fox news knew about his conduct but was willing to turn a blind eye to it. and they renewed his contract knowing that he was a sexual predator. bill o'reilly faces questions this morning. >> a new york times frontpage expose... >> in april of 2017, the new york times broke a frontpage story that fox news and o'reilly have paid out some $13 million to settle claims of inappropriate sexually harassing behavior. >> bill o'reilly issued a statement saying he wishes only the best for fox while alleging he did nothing wrong. >> the o'reilly scandal opens yet another fault line between james and lachlan. lachlan, knowing that o'reilly is enormously popular, wants to

proceed cautiously. >> the roger ailes situation and the bill o'reilly situation appeared very different and still appear to be -- well, still are factually different. >> james wants to unambiguously fire him immediately. >> what are the facts and then how do we react to them in the right way and do it quickly and loudly so that everyone can understand that certain things are intolerable? >> james finds o'reilly's conduct unacceptable and he also wants to try to protect fox's reputation in advance of the sky deal. in order for this deal to go through, it needs to be cleared by a british regulatory agency known as ofcom. >> ofcom will decide whether 21st century fox is fit and proper to purchase the part of the media giant sky that they don't already own. >> firing o'reilly is not something that rupert wants to do. o'reilly has been a huge star for the network. but after james and several other 21st century fox executives are grilled by british regulators, james is able to make the argument that for the sky deal to go forward,

they need to quickly get rid of o'reilly. >> nearly 20 major advertisers have pulled ads from the o'reilly factor. >> sources describe the murdoch family discussions as fraught. >> lachlan and rupert do come around. and o'reilly is fired, but he is given a $25 million severance. >> all right, here we go, breaking news, conservative media's biggest star and the face of fox news is out. >> bill o'reilly is leaving this chair and this network after more than 20 years. >> do you have any concerns about what people might say is happening at fox news? >> fox news is getting record ratings. >> what? >> fox is getting record ratings. >> yeah. and you don't think ofcom are going to consider what's happening at fox news. >> nothing is happening at fox news. nothing. okay? >> and james was right, because some of o'reilly's victims start submitting letters to ofcom as part of their review of the

murdoch's purchase of sky. >> things just got a lot more tricky for rupert murdoch. concerns about how fox handled the string of sexual harassment allegations. >> given everything that we know about the murdoch empire, we believe it would be irresponsible for this deal to go through. >> ofcom said behaviors recently alleged at fox news in the us amount to significant corporate failures. >> as the rulings come in, it is one blow after another for the murdochs. >> a major setback for rupert murdoch after the competition watchdog ruled that fox's multibillion pound bid to take over sky was not in the public interest. >> finally ended the murdoch family's ambition to control all of the broadcast of sky through its 21st century... >> the rulings amount to a full-blown repudiation of the murdochs. it is an especially harsh blow to james. >> the one thing that can restore him at the top of the

company and prepare the company to compete in the age of netflix is slipping through his fingers once again. >> james is becoming increasingly frustrated. he's realizing that he is not going to be able to change this company, that he's not getting through to his father and brother, that they had these fundamental disagreements. and then charlottesville happens, which causes even more tension. >> a car plowing into a crowd... >> a white supremacist faces a second-degree murder charge in that incident... >> you also had people that were very fine people on both sides. you had people in that group -- >> once the president comes forward and says good people on both sides, then fox news has the path forward to talk about charlottesville in a way where they could sort of echo those thoughts. >> it was both sides causing violence. the reason those people were out there, a lot of it though is, i feel like my country is slipping away.

>> we condemn all violence. that's what president trump said. and all lives matter. if you don't agree with that, you're a racist. >> james and his wife catherine are outraged. and catherine says to james, if we're not going to say something about nazis marching in virginia, then when are we going to say something? he and catherine write a letter about the events of charlottesville and release it publicly themselves. simply stating, i can't believe i even need to write this letter. there are no good nazis. standing up to fascists and white nationalists is necessary. >> i think a lot of people in the country felt sick that week and were worried about this trend, et cetera, so i just felt it was important to reach out to people and encourage them to do the same.

it was more solicitation and trying to lead by example. >> there were no other statements following from lachlan, nor from rupert. >> the fact that they don't have anything to say really says everything. >> i remember thinking that email means nothing. if you looked out what was going on our airwaves, on our network every single day, it was clear that james murdoch had no input whatsoever on what was being said on fox. nail the final interview. buy or lease? masterpiece. inside joke. artichoke. game with doug. brand new mug. come here, kid. gimme a hug. the more you want to do, the more we want to do. boosters designed for covid-19 variants are now available. brought to you by pfizer & biontech. ♪

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rupert murdoch sees that his sons are not getting along and that they don't agree on how to run the company in the future. and at the same time he's seeing the sort of weaknesses of 21st century fox in the overall marketplace. the company 21st century fox is what some people would call perhaps the sexier assets. the hollywood studio, the network, the cable channels like fx, not to mention all of the international cable channels that would send fox programming out around the world.

>> rupert is now 86 years old and the media industry has been transformed in the last five years. television streaming and netflix in particular has changed everything. >> netflix reporting the addition of 7. 05 million new subscribers in the fourth quarter. >> the murdoch empire was now suddenly small. losing sky became an existential threat. >> and that brings us back to august 2017 when rupert murdoch invites bob iger, the head of disney, to have a drink with him at his $29 million vineyard in the hills of bel air. >> rupert suggests something stunning, something that flies in the face of everything he's done and built over the last few decades. >> rupert floats the idea of selling 21st century fox to disney. >> and over the next several weeks and months, disney made a

play to buy the crown jewel of the murdoch empire. >> so you might say to yourself, why would rupert be willing to just get rid of this entire empire that he's built? it's a little bit like, you know, the king waving the white flag. >> among rupert's peers, it's read as a no confidence vote in his sons, that he doesn't think either son will be able to build the company back up for this new era. >> the disney deal for james and lachlan will actually be the true breaking point. >> when we were reporting this part of the story, everyone we talked to who was in james' camp gave one version of the story, and everyone we talked to who was in lachlan's camp gave a very different version of the story.

>> james, by all accounts, viewed disney as a possible way out, as well as the right business move. >> the disney-fox combination, one reason why i think it's compelling for shareholders is that it creates -- you know, you're moving up another weight class, and that's very exciting. >> some have said james was hoping he could go over to disney and maybe one day succeed bob iger. people close to james deny that. however, they don't deny that he was very much bucking for that disney deal. >> james and i have talked a lot about a potential role for him. he and i will continue to talk about whether there's a role for him at this company. we've had a good relationship. >> for james, the idea that he could move to disney in a very senior executive role would both enable him to put one over on his brother, who will be inheriting this much smaller, you know, right-wing news network, not a media empire at all, really. so he will be the winner, ultimately, in this kind of

endless rivalry with his brother. but also, politically, it would land him at a company that has no discernible politics at all, and in fact, a company that is almost self-consciously apolitical. >> we feel very strongly about where we're positioned to grow the company as a standalone company. >> lachlan, on the other hand, was furious initially about the deal. people in lachlan's world describe this as james rushing to basically gut the company. lachlan wanted the best price for these assets. some people have said that this was, in his view, a loss of his birthright. >> lachlan loved the glamour of the movie business. to him, the film legacy was a big part of the family legacy, and he did not want to give that up. >> his father wooed him back from australia to take over the business. here he is. he's moved his family back to los angeles. and then, suddenly, he's getting the rug pulled out from under him. his father's going to sell the biggest chunk of the company,

certainly the most glamorous part of the company. this grand empire that he's about to inherit is actually just going to be a right-wing news network, fox news. >> these tensions boil over spectacularly at a family dinner, in a private room, at a swanky manhattan restaurant. >> the deal is still in negotiation. nothing's been closed. they haven't agreed on a price yet, but they're talking. and lachlan is furious. and he says at one point at this dinner, if you take another phone call on this deal, you will no longer have a son. >> lachlan and rupert have both, for the record, denied he made those threats. >> despite lachlan's protestations, his tantrums, really, rupert still won't listen to him.

>> i hope to be able to leave them a great opportunity, like my father left me. all the signs are they want it very much. >> for decades, rupert has been grooming his children to run this empire. >> you have said you would like to have a member of the family succeed you. >> yeah, they're going to prove themselves too. >> he has very deliberately made the business his family and the family his business. and yet at this moment, he makes a decision that very clearly puts the business before the family. >> some surprising news here. yeah, potentially big story here in the media business. 21st century fox has been holding talks to sell most of the company to walt disney. >> a $54 billion deal for the video streaming era. >> leaving behind the media company tightly focused on news and sports. >> and now there's a genuine question.

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with the biggest deal of his life and career hanging in the balance, something unexpected happens to rupert murdoch. >> rupert murdoch, the media

mogul is said to have been hospitalized with an accident and it happened on... >> he's just been airlifted to los angeles after falling and sustaining a serious spinal injury on his son lachlan's yacht. rupert's life is at risk. >> for the children, there is both the question of what is going to happen to their father, this man they love, but also this question of what is going to happen to this empire. >> this could decide what they've all been vying for, succession for the company. >> it's all really up in the air in that moment. >> rupert murdoch made his first appearance back at the office after a back injury. >> it's of course a delicate

time for him as he tries to navigate his company through this disney deal and beyond. >> rupert recovers with aplomb. he's even boasting to his family about how strong he is. >> i think there is a sense that rupert at that point was a man on a mission and that the mission was to finish the disney deal. >> disney will get approval to buy the assets of fox. >> the disney deal makes a lot of money for the murdochs. each of the six murdoch children get $2 billion. >> but once the disney deal closed, fox was left a shell of its former self. gone was the movie studio, gone was the cable networks like fx. what was left was the fox broadcasting company, fox sports and fox news, the thing rupert cares about more than anything. >> and you will remain executive chairman. >> i will be. >> i hope my son lachlan will agree to be chief executive. >> fox announcing its leadership

for the new fox. those are the assets of 21st century fox that are not selling to disney. lachlan murdoch will serve as chairman and ceo of the company. rupert murdoch will serve as co-chairman. >> lachlan would run the remaining parts of fox that didn't come with the deal. fox news, fox business news and the regional sports networks that the company owns around the country. >> but this question of whether james is going to be kind of part of the deal is kind of simmering. and at one point rupert is actually asked about it. >> what about the position of your son james? there have been a lot of speculation beforehand that you were agitating for a place for him on the disney boards. >> no, no, no. there is no condition like that. >> which, you know, you imagine was a blow to james. >> at this point it doesn't seem like james murdoch is going to be going over to disney. >> a couple years ago, we would not have expected that lachlan would be the one of the murdoch boys with an executive role and james would be looking for something else to do. interesting how... >> if you think of this as a game of musical chairs, lachlan

got a chair and when james looked down there was no chair. >> can we call this an exit interview? >> no, not yet. >> i still have a few projects. >> but you're running -- you're ceo of 21st century fox. some point in the nearish future you're not going to be. what are you going to do after that? >> well, i don't know, i think the first thing is that -- rupert was never as close to james as he is to lachlan, who's an easier personality, is much closer to his father's political views. and he makes a selfish choice. he chooses between his two sons and he chooses lachlan to succeed him. >> what surfaces after the deal is that there's a new dynamic in the family. now james is more closely aligned with his sister elisabeth. at the same time, james will continue to not speak with his

brother and in fact speak only rarely to his father. >> by making his family the business and the business his family, rupert left his family just as broken up as his company was when he sold to disney. it was ripped apart by this decades-long battle for succession, which at the same time was a zero-sum-seeming battle for their father's love. >> and we begin tonight with breaking news. james murdoch, resigning from news corp's board of directors. >> and then james really severs his last official tie to his father's empire. >> he sends a letter to the board. >> he resigns from news corp and he says, rather tersely and tartly, he has philosophical differences with the direction shown by the company. >> disagreements over certain

editorial content published by the company's news outlets really speaks to the split within that murdoch family over some of the political content of news corp. >> james' path is done. he's out of the company. he tells people now that he sees the empire as a shriveled-up version of itself. in fact, dismissively, he would call it a political project. >> i think james realized to some degree, if you're going to shoot the king, you have to kill the king. and i think that this was a realization that james was not going to be able to persuade his father to his side, and that he was not going to be able to overthrow his father either. >> do you think there's ever a future in which you would go back to fox? >> i don't think so. i think they're off doing their own thing there. >> james and his wife, catherine, set up their own nonprofit focused on climate change, voter suppression, misinformation on a variety of different fronts. it seems almost like james is setting up the sort of antidote to his father's empire. >> i think i want to be as useful as i can. >> in some ways, james is finally now creating some distance between himself and his family and putting his money

where his mouth had been. but there's also another way to look at it. >> james and catherine murdoch are trying to gain a nice reputational scent. their fortune is tainted by the disunity that they now claim laterally to be interested in solving on a pittance of a scale. >> the argument that it's too little, too late is fair. but you know, james is finally taking some steps away from the family. so in that sense, it is progress. >> the murdoch family got a taste of its own medicine with a 20,000 word expose in the new york times. >> our story was published in april 2019. at the time, we didn't realize how much more complicated the relationship between fox and trump was about to become.

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this is the moment where the relationship between rupert murdoch and donald trump really shifts. >> the coronavirus pandemic is clearly complicating november's presidential election. >> this morning, president trump's approval rating on the coronavirus pandemic is sliding. >> this gallup poll just out. he takes a ten-point hit. >> a huge drop. >> 68% of all americans say the us's response to the coronavirus makes you feel embarrassed. >> as it harms trump's popularity, murdoch sort of starts to see trump's ceasing to be as useful. >> the president's problems are many. joe biden has a big and a growing lead. >> it became clear to murdoch and other people that trump was likely to lose, and that changed things dramatically. >> during the course of my reporting, a number of people that had spoken to rupert relayed to me that biden was going to win in a landslide, and at least to one close associate, he had said that america was ready for sleepy joe.

>> the view inside fox corporation was, fox news is so much bigger than donald. we don't need trump. trump actually needs us. >> it's election night in america, and a nation in crisis is at a crossroads. >> where fox news and donald trump finally come to a head is on election night 2020. >> polls have just closed in half a dozen states, the most closely watched state at this hour. >> donald trump is at an election watch party in the east room of the white house. >> early on in the night, it actually seemed that trump was doing better than expected. >> a big call right here. the president, donald trump, will win the state of florida. 29 electoral votes. >> arizona just brought that all crashing down. >> what is this happening here? why is arizona blue? >> did we just call it? arizona, 11 electoral votes?

>> yes. >> okay. this is a big get for the biden campaign. >> it's not only that fox calls this pretty early in the night. they are alone in making this call. >> a different network called arizona for biden. we have not. and most networks have not. >> given the arc of this relationship, it's an incredible moment. fox is putting the pin in trump's reelection chances after everything they've been through. it's seen in trump's world as this incredible betrayal. >> that call inside the white house just went off like a bomb. >> trump's immediate reaction was to tell his aides to get that fixed. every trump advisor who had any line into anyone at fox was making that call. >> trump's two older sons, don jr. and eric, were literally screaming. >> the trump campaign is, how should i put this, livid. >> among the people who got a

phone call that night was rupert murdoch. >> jared kushner, who has been close to murdoch for years, made that phone call to him. >> rupert and lachlan had the power to reverse that call. they had the power to pull back that arizona call. and they didn't. >> fox stood by its call. >> after four long tense days, we can now project the winner. >> joe biden has been elected the 46th president of the united states. >> president trump and many of his supporters are furious with the network for calling the state of arizona. >> they're actually chanting, "fox news sucks." >> it was clear post-election night that the murdochs were surprised with the backlash in the arizona call. although that was the correct call, it led to a lot of fallout.

>> donald trump starts to tell his supporters, don't watch fox news. watch oaa, watch newsmax. you can't watch fox news and still be a loyal trump supporter. >> thank you to the president of the united states who's been retweeting us left and right. >> following that arizona call, competitors to fox used it against them. and they did cut in to fox news' ratings. >> for somebody like rupert murdoch, who really, really loves winning, this is just his nightmare scenario. >> when he sees their ratings tumble, rupert starts becoming more hands- on. >> tens of millions of americans suspect this election was stolen from them. and of course, you can believe it, because we've already found illegal voting. so much for those claims that

voter fraud never happens. of course it happens. they knew it happened when they told us it would never happen because they're liars. so we know that. >> a news operation told the truth, biden's the next president. but the opinion division doubled and tripled down on conspiracy, on confusion about the result. >> and fox starts stripping out hours of news programming and turning it over into opinion shows. >> nearly 80% of trump voters believe this election was tainted with fraud and you have every right not to have faith and confidence. >> and in the days and weeks and months after the election, fox echoes the president's claims the election has been stolen, that the democrats cheated. >> thousands of votes were switched from president trump to joe biden. >> now is the time to stand and fight for what's right. >> and not only is fox now realigning itself with trump, it is also returning to what it does best, which is to foment rage, to foment anger, that the democrats are cheating, the democrats are lying, the democrats are ruining this country and we need to take it back. >> stop the steal! stop the steal! >> we want the [ bleep ]ing

truth! 80 million of us! >> of course, internet radicalization was out of control. and other right-wing news networks were more stridently claiming voter fraud. but there is no denying fox's unique influence. night after night, the most trusted conservative news source was sowing doubt about a legitimate election. >> president trump announced the big rally is tomorrow. he will speak to that crowd. >> january 6th will tell us whether there are any in congress willing to battle for the america that you and i believe in. >> so then all eyes, including at fox, started focusing on january 6th. which was the day the vote was going to be certified in congress. ♪ ♪ ♪

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[ crowd chanti ing "usa" ] >> we fight. we fight like hell. and if you don't fight like hell, you're not going to have a country anymore. >> in some ways, after all the years of pro-trump propaganda, especially in the primetime hours on fox, you could consider january 6th inevitable. >> protesters have been moving down the street. the senate is now debating

objections. >> we had spent close to a year telling the story of how rupert murdoch's empire became so powerful. when a news network that has become so influential and is so willing to traffic in untruths and so willing to whip up anger. >> treason! treason! treason! treason! >> we saw on january 6th how dangerous the consequences of that can be. [ screaming ] >> they wound up attacking the capitol building and people died. >> obviously, this is a huge victory for these protesters.

they have disrupted the system in an enormous way. >> that mob came to believe this was a fraud election. >> fox viewership has been groomed since the mid-90s to believe this channel, to reject what they see on other channels. this is the channel that's free from liberal spin that tells them how it is. >> we got to this sad, chaotic day for a reason. it is not your fault. it is their fault. >> it represents an almost existential tribal struggle in american existence that is far bigger than nielsen ratings. >> it's become a movement unleashed. it is a staggering indication

that this whole thing is much bigger than fox news. [ siren ] >> good evening, everyone. a lifetime achievement award does have an air of finality, almost of closure. >> rupert murdoch was recently given an award, and in accepting the award he railed against political correctness and identity politics and woke-ism. >> too many people have fought too hard in too many places for freedom of speech to be suppressed by this awful woke orthodoxy. >> but as part of that acceptance speech, he also reassured people that he wasn't done yet. >> there are many goals still to come and challenges to overcome.

well, i'm far from done in the professional journey. >> as much as rupert is still planning to continue to run his empire, is still unwilling to acknowledge his own mortality, the reality is that he is going to die someday. as things stand, the children all still own chairs in the company's trust and the moment rupert dies, control of the company will revert to them. >> it will be up to them to decide whether they continue in his mold or they break the mold and reverse course. and when he dies, we're going to go back to the beginning of our story. three adult children with very different views of the world, their father and their company are going to be back at it fighting for supremacy to emerge as the successor to the one and only rupert murdoch.

>> and so the question, how will his four children decide to treat this empire, what will they do with it, is not just another chapter in the saga of the murdoch family. it's really another chapter in american history, and in fact global democracy. i really have very few memories of it. >> i've been dreaming of coming back to calabria since i was a boy.